With his wife, Eric Carle founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a 44,000 sq ft (4,100 m 2) museum devoted to the art of children's books in Amherst located adjacent to Hampshire College as part of the Hampshire College Cultural Village.
The most common cause of beriberi in the United States is alcoholism. Heavy alcohol use can inhibit the bodyâs ability to absorb thiamine, leading to a deficiency. Rarely, beriberi can be inherited. Inherited beriberi creates a dysfunction in a personâs ability to take up and use thiamine. Beriberi can also sometimes be found in nursing infants whose mothersâ diets are inadequate in thiamine and in formula-fed infants whose formula is inadequate in thiamine.
Thiamine deficiency (beriberi) results when your body does not have enough of the vitamin thiamine. Your body requires thiamine to help it break down different types of sugar.Without enough thiamine, you may experience a variety of symptoms that can be serious.Because many foods are supplemented with thiamine, thiamine deficiency is rare in the United States.owever, thiamine deficiency is possible in some people with rare genetic conditions, in people who eat very unbalanced diets, in alcoholics, and in some people with kidney disease. Depending on the level of thiamine deficiency, symptoms can vary greatly.